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New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America [PDF]

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This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition.
Hugo Nopo   +2 more
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Accounting for heterogeneity in growth incidence in Cameroon [PDF]

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This paper presents counterfactual decompositions based on both the Shapley method and a generalization of the Oaxaca-Blinder approach to identify proximate factors that might explain differences in the distribution of economic welfare in Cameroon in ...
Bassol3, Leandre   +2 more
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The Role of Desicion Making Processes in the Correlation between Wealth and Health [PDF]

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There are many pathways explaining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health; one possibility is that some normally unobservable characteristic causes people to invest both in their financial well-being and their health.
Binswanger, J., Carman, K.G.
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InterRegional Wage Differentials in Portugal: An Analysis Across the Wage Distribution [PDF]

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TTypically, studies on regional wage differentials are based on OLS estimates and use Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca (1973) decomposition. Quantile regression is an alternative approach which allows for studying these differences across the whole wage ...
Aurora Galego, João Pereira
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